Details

Subjects:

Logic.
India.
Logic -- India.
Nyaya.
Hindu logic.
Hindu philosophy.
Indian philosophy.

Form/Genre:

Manuals (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Manuscripts.

Language:

In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)

Summary:

Manuscript is used for contemplation and study and is a student primer on logic called The nectar or essence of logic (tarkāmṛta).

Notes:

Title from title page (f. 1r).
Written in 10-12 lines per leaf.
6 leaves foliated 1-6, upper left and lower right verso.
Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; vertical margins marked with double or triple black line.

Cited in:

Listed in H. I. Poleman, Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, 1938), Poleman 3637 (UP 647).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 390, Item 647

OCLC:

861222203